Summertime work...

Summertime is always interesting as a grad student. I am still expected to do research...and of course, if i want to graduate anytime in the near future..i must continue to work on my dissertation. But in my case, I am supported by a research grant that is completely separate from my dissertation research. I am part of a government grant to help test the impact on different algorithms/methods, resolution and surface terrain type on feature extraction. Summer will be busy with several week long conferences and some personal travel as well. I have been sitting in on working groups and all hands meetings to discuss new research and update the grant providing agency with research updates. Of course we have been going non stop and I am exhausted! but they did feed us. So i have to go back and actually do the research I presented, but at the same time i have to find time to work on my own research as well. One of the groups this week was thought to be the brain trust of the generalization and integration industry.

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I'm so behind

of course...it's part of the process right? I need to get focused and figure out how i am going to finish my dissertation before the end of 2010. I tend to get really motivated for a short time, sort of like what caffeine does. So for starters, I decided to think more about what all the elements of my dissertation will be. I can work on parts where I can actually add input, that way I am always working on some part of it. Write something every night/or day is what they always say. Of course i haven't done that. So here we go, it probably won't be written here, but in my dissertation journal instead where it can easily be translated into the actual dissertation. I have a feeling that the longer it takes to work on this, the less significant it may be in the long run. So i have to redefine or better yet, define what is most significant about my work.